Married 1) Eva L. Good 21 Dec 1890 Wells County, Indiana and 2) Amanda Alvina Davis.

From "Biographical Memoirs of Wells County, Indiana," Logansport, B. F. Bowen, 1903, pp. 180-181.

O. B. Bevington was born in Jackson township, Wells county, Indiana, November 6, 1860. He is a son of R. A. Bevington, born May 25, 1819, in Pennsylvania, and who died March 24, 1897. His maternal parent was Catherine (Shadle) Bevington, born in the year 1827, a native of Pennsylvania, who died March 24, 1887. R. A. Bevington, a few years after his first marriage, came to Wells county, Indiana, at a very early day, entered land and cleared up a farm, and remarried, his second wife being Lucy Gill. He then removed into Huntington county, Indiana, where he died. To his first union eleven children were born, six of whom are yet living: Clorinda, the wife of Samuel Knott, a resident of Jackson township; Melissa, the wife of Peter Runkle, of Jackson township, Wells county; Sarah, who is the wife of Dr. Harrold, a resident of Blackford county, Indiana; O. R., of Montpelier, Indiana; Henrietta, the wife of Daniel Alspach, and Oscar, now a resident of Fairmount, Indiana. The deceased children of the first marriage are Emaline E., who was the wife of Isaac Hodson; Martha, Ira and Catherine.

The subject attended the public schools of Jackson township until he was about fourteen years old, when he went to work with his father and remained until he was twenty-four years of age, receiving his board and clothes for his labor. After his mother's second marriage he left home. He then began working by the day for Daniel Alspach, and afterward by the month for Walter Perry, with whom he remained one summer. He then went to Delaware county, Indiana, where he remained from fall until the holidays. He then came to R. A. Bevington's, remaining one year, when he went to Fulton county, Ohio, and was there for about six years. He then came back to Indiana, working by the day and month for about one and a half years, when he married Eva L. Good, a daughter of John Good. She died January 19, 1898. After his marriage, Mr. Bevington moved onto the old homestead, where he remained for about seven years, when he constructed buildings and removed to a farm on which he now lives. After living on this place for about three months he married Elvina Davis, born April 20, 1878, a daughter of John and Mary (Bailey) Davis, both natives of Huntington county, Indiana, the father now deceased. Mr. Bevington is a general stock farmer and has engaged in the breeding and handling of cattle, hogs and horses. In the line of swine he prefers the Poland China breed and is an admirer of shorthorn cattle. He has five fine producing oil wells on his farm, which seem to be holding up well, yielding him a profit of about fifty dollars per month. He has devoted his entire life to farming and farm interests. He is the father of two children, one of whom is living: Martha, born December 16, 1900, died April 12, 1901, and Russell B., born April 12, 1902.

Mr. Bevington was formerly a Republican in politics, but is now a Prohibitionist. Both he and wife are members of the Wesleyan Methodist church in Warren, Indiana, and are exemplary representatives of that worthy denomination. O. B. Bevington is a worthy example of the citizenship which is the product of our common district schools and the sturdy farm life, belonging to that class who naturally take up the vocation of the farm for their life work, and thus become a part of that important and influential element of our population which is the bone and sinew of the county and to whom the nation is indebted for the boundless prosperity which is ours and of which we boast.